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Sitting in my hotel room at Kalahari Resort (I’m speaking at a retreat this weekend) and found this in one of my Evernote folders from last September and thought it was worth posting.  Have no idea where I clipped it from off the internet but I think this is good stuff to know, especially considering [...]

Just read an interesting article OVER HERE.
Excerpt: New data released this week from Pew Research on Millennials and religion quoted in USA Today,Denver Post and elsewhere, says one in four Millennials (25%) do not identify with any one faith, instead describing their religion as “atheist,” “agnostic” or “nothing in particular.”  This level of non-affiliation is much than was [...]

Found this article about 28 middle schoolers suspended for cyberbullying on Facebook.  Intense.
GO HERE.

Just read this and twittered it but it’s worth posting again.  Lilly is bright and I enjoy this blog. Lily wrote:
Dear Grown-Up,
We should sit down and talk sometime. Soon. Lately I’ve been hearing a lot of intergenerational smack talk. But I’m not hearing kids my age complain about their teachers, coaches and parents. Instead the [...]

This was a great article I found HERE written by Annastasia.
The following is the article:
I was included on an email thread by danah boyd along with Henry Jenkins about a new web application called Paralert. The original email was from a writer covering this startup who was disturbed by the idea of parents using this technology to monitor [...]

Don’t know that I fully agree with everything to the full extent of this article as its largely based on the “buried life” mentality being projected to the whole demographic BUT I do however think that there is some solid truth here.
Original is here:
How today’s teens are different:

They will defy conformity and reshape the vision [...]

Not to be a downer but this is GREAT info to know if you have a teenager driving!!!!  Found these sobering stats over here.
Top 20 Causes of Death - Older Teen (15 – 19)

Rank
Cause of Death
Total Deaths
No of Deaths
Percent

All Deaths
13812
13812
100.00%

1
Unintentional Injury

7137
51.67%

* Motor Vehicle Traffic

5522
39.98%

* Poisoning

486
3.52%

* Drowning

320
2.32%

* Firearm

107
0.77%

* Other Land Transport

100
0.72%

* Fire/burn

86
0.62%

* Fall

83
0.60%

* Unspecified

79
0.57%

* Other Transport

69
0.50%

* Pedestrian, Other

68
0.49%

* Suffocation

68
0.49%

* [...]

- Led by Facebook, Twitter, Global Time Spent on Social Media Sites up 82% Year over Year
-Teen suicide prompts study of cyberbullying
-Teen pregnancy and abortion on the rise

~ Cyberbullying suicide (results in two Massachusetts high school students’ suspension. (Fox News)
~Tennessee student is expelled for his Facebook posting. (USA Today)
~ Teen pregnancy (the horror film — will an ad campaign for a fake scary movie about teen motherhood snap teens back to reality, or just muddle the message?

~ Kids and their cell phones (“Twenty percent of kids ages 6-11 now have their own cell phone.” (MediaPost)
~ Schools outlaw “Sexual bending”
~ Schools must embrace Technology (ie Texting)? (BBC)
~Gen Y’s creativity tools (Tumblr, Apple, Adobe, etc. And how this is happening in the kids’ space with “CCC” or Child Created Content. Case in point: Microsoft’s kid [...]